As the title asks, how does one actually use HDR for games after upgrading to Plasma 6?
This was the feature I was most excited about, and I can hit the HDR button on my display configuration and it looks like the desktop is going into HDR mode, but so far I have had zero luck enabling the HDR feature in games. Every game I’ve tried had the HDR toggle disabled with no way to enable it.
I am running these games under Proton and I’ve tried both 8-GE and 9 Beta. Any tips?
Edit: probably important to note that I am using an AMD GPU under Wayland
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Hi! To enable HDR in most games you will need to set your game in fullscreen. Windowed or Borderless won’t allow you to use HDR functionality.
You’ll also need to use the
DXVK_HDR=1 %command%startup variable in steam to enable HDR in any Proton game. Proton 8 and 9 should support HDR without issuez although there are some games that might need additional configuration.If you use an NVIDIA card, you might need to enable NVAPI with
DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1Happy gaming! :D
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Excellent, thanks for this!
Nice, this appears to allow me to enable HDR at least in Resident Evil 8.
Is there a distinct command if the game is native Vulkan versus using the Direct3d to Vulkan layer?
Edit: Lojcs is saying this only allows you to enable it but it isn’t actually working, https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/8535260
Well I was wondering this whole time how that works! Thanks a ton!
To add to this, I was doing some testing since this is on my mind and I am also unable to get HDR working on Youtube under either Firefox or Chromium.
This may be orthogonal to running games or it could be related.
